The Note: Obama Poised for High-Profile Trip

This is why I do not watch network news. To send every anchor to follow him now that he has finally decided to go shows how one sided the press really is. It is a disgrace how much attention he will get from the networks. How many trips to Europe and Middle East that McCain made. Fair and Balance!

The clintons are going to be in the news more now Bill is going to campaign for Barack, I think its good he is going on this trip gives them a chance to meet our future president go obama 08

Gallup Tracking 07/14 – 07/16 2652 RV 46 44 Obama +2.0
Rasmussen Tracking 07/14 – 07/16 3000 LV 46 46 Tie
Given the huge media coverage of Obama vs McCain, Obama’s fundraising advantage and 8 yrs of an unpopular Republican president, those numbers show serious weakness in Obama’s ability to move beyond his core base.

THE REAL OBAMA SAID: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
IS HE PROPOSING A POLICE STATE OR WHAT?

BHO’s trip: A boondoggle funded by taxpayers. Nothing more.

jane dane: You say that “Obama would not even be able to make this trip if it were not due to success of the SURGE” yet his last trip to Iraq was well before the surge and conditions were even worse. I hate to inject facts and reality into your world, but the short term tactical success of the surge (so glad the Republicans only took 6 years to hit on the idea of listening to their generals and send more troops) has provably zero effect on Senator Obama’s ability to “make this trip.”
And if the Iraqi government doesn’t step up – beyond demanding the US sets a timetable for their withdrawal – the surge will have failed to meet it’s objective, which was clearly and publicly stated to be to provide breathing room for a reconciliation government to be established.

rachel,
why should hillary defend her plan, if obama now takes it? After all, it is her plan that Obama banged during the primary – that defeated her. He should be kicked out of the race for adopting all the plans of Hillary and others. And democratic party (super delegates) of all the blues states, who ditched the popular mandate to hillary should be kicked out of democratic party.
As a matter of fact, this is the very reason why dems supporters should not vote for OBAMA, since he is double toungue, has no plans except for the gift of speeches. That will teach Super Delegates some lessions for ignoring the popular choice of the blue states.
We do not want a nominee selected by red states and corrupt, idiotic super delegates.

Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate so he will have a BACKDROP to bolster his foreign policy credentials—you know a picture sends a thousand words. No need for skills or experience. Why is he going to Europe, did he learn French or German? Oh, they probably speak English there because it is the universal language—you know the language that Obama voted NO to make it the official language of America. I thought this was a visit to Iraq and Afghanistan to learn as much as he can to make the decisions necessary to protect America. This is a show, a spectacle with an ego to match. The American public is being driven like sheep. Usually a man or woman is known by their deeds, work, effort and the company they keep. Obama has no deeds yet, and the company he has kept over the past 20 years is a clear indication of his character — convicted political fixer Tony Rezko, Nadhmi Auchi, William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, and Rev. Wright, Rev. Meeks, Rev. Otis, Father Pfleger, friend to Fouis Farraklan, Aiham Alsammarae and the list goes on and on.

Namrep: Regarding Obama “taking Hillary’s plan,” you may be surprised to hear that both Senators Clinton and Obama are Democrats and, as was widely reported during the primaries, hold very similar policy positions (almost as if they were members of the same party – wow!). Their main difference was Senator Obama preached a more bipartisan approach (which makes it odd people think it’s a flip-flop that he has many long-held moderate positions, such as on faith based organizations and consulting with the military on the orderly pullout from Iraq). And – don’t let this blow your mind – there is even a likelyhood Senator Clinton would be tapped to serve in an Obama administration cabinet position (some wacky theories even have her in the running for VP!).

jhw539
Of course their plans were similar, he copied them all from other candidates, including Clinton. Obama doesn’t have an original idea in his head. He may have talked about “bi-partisanship”, but Hillary Clinton has practised it for years. Obama is all-talk, no action. Just ask his constituents in Illinois how happy they are with their Senator. They’ll vote him out of that job because then they might get someone who gives a damn about them.
Why on earth would Hillary Clinton give up her Senate seat to be in an Obama administration? If Obama becomes the nominee-he’s not yet-he’ll have to grow up and take responsibility for his own actions. As that’s not something he’s yet done in his entire life, I’m not holding my breath.

Kieth: Is the fact that Senator Obama accepts good ideas, approaches that are good for America and will make the life of my family better, regardless of who comes up with them first a bad thing? That is the cliche’ standard of a good and effective leader. Would you prefer the Republican model of stubborn denial of reality and Titanic-like refusal to change course epitomized in President Bush? This isn’t a football game where we wave our foam fingers and hope the other side loses; at the end of the day both sides want the best for America (unless you believe the “Bush and his Republican cronies are looting America for Enron/oil speculators/Saudis/telecos/the aliens from Roswell…”).

From an article by NY Times yesterday:
Saad Sultan, an official in an Iraqi government ministry, contended that Mr. Obama could give a fresh start to relations between the Arab world and the United States.
Mr. Obama has never practiced Islam; his father, whom he barely knew, was born Muslim, but became a nonbeliever. Mr. Sultan, however, like many Iraqis, feels instinctively close to the senator because he heard that he had Muslim roots.
“Every time I see Obama I say: ‘He’s close to us. Maybe he’ll see us in a different way,’ ” Mr. Sultan said. “I find Obama very close to my heart

jhw – my point is yes, Obama should be farther ahead given this year’s political climate but also to dispel the idea that Obama is a strong candidate, that his election is ‘inevitable’ and will be a ‘landslide’ as some have commented. Those are irrational expectations. Everything about Obama needs to be brought back down to reality before the election. The man needs to be demystified otherwise, win or lose, too many people are being set up for a rude awakening. That’s my concern.

Keith: No, that is not at all what I’m saying. Not much point in my saying the same thing over and over if you’re just not going to get it. If you actually cared about his substance, you would go and read some of the detailed, specific policy papers he has developed and posted publicly on his site. You don’t even bother reading the example I tossed out here (his development and eventual implementation with bipartisan support of videotaping rules in Illinois). There *are* rational disagreements on the substance of his positions (returning to the Clinton-Gingrich era upper tax marginal rates to fund infrastructure and other programs) that are worth debating, but I don’t see a reason to waste time arguing if you are just going to mindlessly parrot a talking point ungrounded in reality.

If Obama is such an intellectual moron as “reason” claims, then why is it that policies and diplomatic strategies that Obama proposed over a year ago now Bush and McCain are trying to claim as there own??
“Reason” is one of those low information voters who voted for Bush because he wanted to have a beer with him!

Can the Clintons stay out of the news the whole time that the presumptive Democratic nominee is out of the country?
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The Clintons are in the news not beacuse they ask or want to be but because they are both larger-than-life politicians who are idolized and revered in this country and around the world.

Poor Mary. She was critizing Obama for not going, now she is doing the same when he does go. You really have to feel sorry for someone who is just this mixed up! Or confused!!

JHW and KEIth Right Al Gore was and should have been if Flordia had been an honest state highway patrol rosdblocks on the streets that lead to the polls. the whole nine yards of crookedness. Obama can’t get rid of Hillary without her he has nothing all of her solutions he stole and called them change